Milford High School - Oak Lily and Ivy Yearbook (Milford, MA)

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5 V if ford J fiyh School ‘Directory, SCHOOL COMMITTEE. John E. Swift Charles W. Gould Superintendent, Almorin Orton Caswell. ALUMNI ASSOCIATION. Mrs. Mary E. Cahill, Pres., ‘92. Secretary, Ethelwyn Blake, ‘89 FACULTY. Sue-Master, Francis C. Berry, Mathematics. Miss Mary B. Ford, Chemistry, Mathematics. Miss Inez L. Gay, Latin. Miss Marion A. Ryan, French, English. Mi ss M ary M. Fitzpatrick, English, History. Miss May E. Birmingham, Stenography, Typewriting, Bookkeeping, Commer¬ cial Law, Penmanship. Miss Hannah E. Callanan, English, History, Latin. Miss Margaret A. Pianca, German, French. Miss Catherine M Morrill, Bookkeeping, Commercial A rithmetic, Commercial Correspondence, Cost Accounting. Miss Florence M. Wiiittemore, Latin, History Miss Anna C. Donlan, English, History. Miss Sadie A. O’Connell, English, History, Declamation. Miss Genevieve Toohey, Drawing. Miss Elizabeth McNamara, Music. SCHOOL PHYSICIANS. Dr. J. V. Gallagher BASE BALI Manager, James Dalton, ’IT. Captain, Howard Hilton,’17 FOOT BALL TEAM. Manager, Spencer Carr, 17. Captain, Charles Yesperi, 17 President, Charles Yesperi. N ice President, Dorothy E Lilley. Secretary, Esther M. Murray Treasurer, Joseph C. Bruce

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CONTENTS Poetical Aspirations, E. Metcalf 4 To, CNerkeard, Katkerine Lester, ’18, King Alcokol, Henry J. Ripley, ’17, Editorials, Sckool Notes, Atkletics, Alumni, Exckanges, Humor of It,

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OAK, LILY AND IVY VOL. XXXIII. MILFORD, MASS., JAN., 1917. NO. 4. Published Monthly During the School Year by the Pupils of the Milford High School. Board of Editors : Editor-In-Chief, Beatrice L. Battles, ’17. Assistant Editor, Helen Mead, ’17. Business Manager, Joseph C. Bruce, ’17. Dorothy E. Lilley, ’17. Karl S. Roberts, ’18. Edmund T. Welch, ’17, Fred J. Niro, ’17. Catherine Burns, ’17. F. Elizabeth Hears, ’17 Katherine H. Lester, ’18. Elmer C. Nelson, ’18 Esther E. Haskard, ’18. Chester O. Avery, ’18 Subscription Rates : For the year, 50 cents. Single copies, 10 cents. Address all communications to Oak, Lily and Ivy, Milford, Mass. Entered at the Milford, Mass. Post Office, as second class matter. POETICAL ASPIRATIONS. The grave old seniors at St. Timothy’s College surveyed the new boys criti¬ cally when they came back to school in the autumn. Perry Bancroft, the new football captain, looked at them with an especially searching eye for he was de¬ termined that this year’s fight for the football pennant should not end as disas¬ trously for St. Tim’s as it had the preceeding fall. There were a few new fel¬ lows in his own class, but Bancroft’s chief hope for the team lay in the fresh¬ men. Nor was he disappointed, for the babes responded handsomely and yield¬ ed up six of their number to be placed upon the altar—or the gridiron. Two more came from the sophomores and one from the juniors, while he himself made the tenth. But there his rescources were exhausted. There were any number of fair players to be had, but Perry had vowed to have a team with dash, brilliancy, weight and nerve—in short, a thoroughbred eleven, or no team at all. Finally, he took on the star of the scrub team, but he was not content. He had nine veritable wonders but did not share in the general conviction that he was the best football player that “St. Tim’s” had ever produced. The tenth, at best, was only a mediocre player. He lacked the confidence the comeback, the ‘pep’ of a true lover of football. There was one fellow, how¬ ever, whom Bancroft by a strange trick of Fate, had over-looked. It was all the stranger because a lad who is over six feet tall and nearly two feet broad is rather hard to ignore. Still, maybe there was some excuse for Perry because the newcomer stayed close to his rooms for several weeks after his arrival. In¬ deed, if the young giant’s room mate had not been a chum of Bancroft’s, the worried captain might never have made his find, and great would have been